Roland BK-9 - Recording Other Tracks and Divisions; Muting Tracks While Recording Others

Starting to Make your Own Rhythm
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Left Display
2. Rotate the dial to select “Save” and push the dial.
The display now shows the contents of the connected USB memory.
NOTE
Your own rhythms can only be saved to a USB memory. If you
forgot to connect one, the display now shows the message “USB
Device not inserted”.
3. Press the [WRITE] button
If you initialized the RAM memory before recording your rst part,
the BK-9 suggests the name “User_Rhythm”. Otherwise, it suggests
the name of the rhythm you have been editing.
Right Display
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4. Use the dial and the TONE [0]~[9] buttons to enter the
desired name. See “How to type a name in BK-9” (p. 27).
5. Press the [WRITE] button to conrm your desire to save
the rhythm.
The display briey conrms the operation and then returns to the
main Rhythm Composer page.
If the USB memory already contains a rhythm le of the specied
name, you will be asked whether you want to overwrite it:
Right Display
In this case, select “YES” using the dial to replace the old le with the
new one (the old le will be lost). Otherwise, select “NO”.
Recording Other Tracks and Divisions
You can now record the second track – probably the bass. If you’d
like to do the guided tour again, return to page 104. Do not forget
to set the “key” for the bass part.
Once the rst Division is nished, you can record other Divisions.
Use the clone functions (“=”) to record several patterns in one go.
Do not forget to record the Fills, Intros and Endings to complete
your rhythms. There are two groups of three lls:
• “Up 1~3” lls are used when you switch on the [AUTO FILL]
button and then press a VARIATION button of a higher number
(transition from [1] to [2], for example).
• “Dwn 1~3” lls are used when you switch on the [AUTO FILL]
button and then press a VARIATION button of a lower number.
• “Intros” and “Ends” are usually used at the beginning of a song
and end patterns provide professional closing sections.
NOTE
The ABass track is monophonic. You can only record single note
patterns.
Muting tracks while recording others
After programming a few tracks, you may nd that certain parts
tend to confuse you. That is why the BK-9 allows you to mute tracks
that you do not want to hear during recording.
1. On the left Rhythm Composer page, use the dial to select
a track.
Left Display
The eld below the “TRACK” parameter shows the name of the
Tone or Drum Set assigned to the selected track (“New Rock” in our
example).
2. Press the [TRACK MUTE] button.
An “m” appears next to the track you have just muted.